In pictures: Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams held over Jean McConville killing

In a conflict of many atrocities, the execution of a widowed mother of 10 stood out for its brutality. Jean McConville was the most famous of the “disappeared”, up to 16 victims of the IRA who were murdered and then buried secretly across Ireland in the Seventies and Eighties. Mrs McConville, a Protestant-born widow, was dragged at gunpoint from her flat in front of her children by 12 armed IRA members in the Divis area of Belfast shortly before Christmas in 1972. The IRA only admitted it had killed her in 1999 after a high-profile campaign by families of the “disappeared”.Picture: PA